"I can go wherever, to Kuala Lumpur or wherever, and if somebody will ask me where I'm from and I say I'm from Iceland, they say, "Yeah, BjÃ¶rk." And that makes me very proud, and that makes me proud to be an Icelandic artist."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jon Gnarr

#Artist Quotes #Iceland Quotes #Proud Quotes

“A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?”
“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”

Source : Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.”
“Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.”
“I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.”

Source : "Lady Gaga: See our pics when she was boring rather than eccentric". www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2009.
“Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.”
“I love colors... as much as I love concepts.”

Source : "Concepual Colors of Genco Gulan". Book by Marcus Graf, 2011.

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